maca
"maca" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“maca” is an uncommon English word, ranked #73,397 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #73,397
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of species Lepidium meyenii, an Andean medicinal herb, or an extract of the root of this plant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maca |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maca” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for maca is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #73,397 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Any of species Lepidium meyenii, an Andean medicinal herb, or an extract of the root of this plant.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for maca, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish maca, from Quechua maqa. The correct English form is maca, spelled M-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1Any of species Lepidium meyenii, an Andean medicinal herb, or an extract of the root of this plant.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish maca, from Quechua maqa.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “maca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.